Quilting-frame



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BERNARD HAGAN, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

QUILTINGr-FRAME, TABLE, AND CLOTHES-BRIEF, COMBINED.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,706, dated March 19, 1861.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, BERNARD FAGAN, o New Britain, county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Combination of Table, Quilt and Clothes Frame in One Piece of Furniture; and I do hereby declare that the same is described and represented in the following specification and drawings; and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the said improvement I will proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the drawings, inwhich the same letters indicate like `parts in each of the figures.

The nature of this improvement will be fully understood from the specification and drawings.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the frame work in a position' to be used either for a quilt frame, an ironing table, or a dining table. Fig. 2 is a perspective View, showing the frame work in a position to be used for a clothes fram-e.

A, are brackets, or supports, secured together in their proper position by an extension girtB, each end of which is provided with a T shaped coupling a, corresponding in shape, withthe aperture c, in the chambered Y plate b, which is secured on the insides of the posts of the brackets A, so that by entering the coupling a, through the aperture c, in the chambered plate 7), and turning it about one quarter turn, it, with the girt B, will hold the brackets iirmly in their proper place and `position for use, and may be at any time easily detached and packed away. Said girt is made in two parts having slits or mortises d, through which are placed bolts c, for holding the two parts together firmly, when they are placed, or adjusted in. the desired position, and by means of which the said girt may be lengthened or shortened at pleasure.

C, are slitted bars, sometimes made of two pieces, with a piece of wood in the center of such length as to leave the slits the desired dimensions, and the three fastened together by screws, bolts, &c. These slitsare to receive the boxes f, or the bars g. These boxes, and bars, are adjusted and held to their proper place by the pins h". The bars Z, and fastened to the end of the posts in a horizontal position by means of hooks m, and it is also fastened in a perpendicular position by the hook n, or its mechanical equivalents.

D, are cornered, or rounded rolls, having journals which take their bearing in the boxes On one end of said journals is securec a ratchet wheel i, or its equivalent, and on the side of the box 7", is secured a pawl j, which works on the edge of the said wheel 2', and prevents the rolls D, from turning backward. In one side of the rolls D, is

made a rabbet, into the side of which are arranged pins, or hooks 7c, the object of which is to secure the edge of the quilt in readiness for quilting. It will be seen, that after the quilt is secured to the rolls D, and the work of quilting progresses, it may be rolled up on the rolls D, and the boxes f, which hold the rolls may be moved inor out ofthe slits in the bars C, and sel cured in the desired place by the pins h, and the quilt may be tightened by turning the rolls D, and dropping the pawl j, on the teeth of the wheel z'. When the quilt is iinished the rolls and boxes maybe removed from, the frame.

When by placing the beds E, upon the bars C, a dining table is produced, the said beds may be provided with dowel pins for the purpose of bringing the edges evenly together, and to steady them in place as in the ordinary way. By removing one'or more of these beds E the bars C, will serve to form supports for an ironing, or skirt board F, thus providing a ready and very convenient arrangement for ironing such articles,

as it is desirable to pass the board Il, through j the garment, and when it is desirable to convert it into a clothes frame, the boards or beds E, are removed, and the bars C, are liberated from their fastenings m, and turned up into a perpendicular position by the side of the posts of the bracket A., and secured in that position by the hook n or other fastening, and the bars g, arranged in the slits by the pins h, thus presenting itself in the form of a clothes"` frame, the whole being so constructed as to render it easily and quickly taken down, and set up again when desired.

C, are hinged to the posts of the brackets at l I believe I have thus shown the construction, operation, and its distinguishing feal In testimony whereof I have hereunto set. tures, so as to enable a person skilled to l my hand and seal this 18th day of Febru- 10 make and use the samfe. I ary 1861.

' What I claim there ore and desire to secure by Letters Patent s- BERNARD FAGAN [LS'] The combination of a table, a qultfl'ame Witnesses: and clothes frame in one, substantially as EDWARD W. BLISS, and for the purposes described. JEREMY W. BLIss. 

